The US seeks a more balanced scale in global semiconductor production

(Source: Amazon) It often takes a crisis or near crisis to draw attention to a situation that has been unchecked for some time. Supply shortages across the board during Covid shed light on the dangers of reliance on other countries for certain products as well as too much reliance on JIT, which kept inventories low and reduced a buffer that companies typically would have had. In some cases, it led to major or minor inconveniences; in others, it could have been catastrophic. Starting in 2020, the US was caught by surprise with a global chip shortage when the demand for